Brides of Melbourne… It’s exciting when you get engaged… It’s time to find THAT wedding gown!

Yes! It starts out fun, only to be disappointed by what you had in mind is going to cost you so much more than your budget allows, and then if you need a simple change the gown ends up being double the price.

This is going to be THE dress that your guests and husband to be! sees when they first set the site of you, and every girl’s dream is to look amazing on their wedding day.

Brides to be… let’s get creative, pull all or ideas together, and Let Lookbook Bride design and custom make your wedding dress. We will get a high-end designer look gown made beautifully! At an affordable price.

You can custom design your own wedding dress by showing us inspiration pictures you have seen on any social media platform,   adding your own unique touch and personal style, (please understand we can not make exact copies!)  Our wedding gowns are handcrafted using the finest fabrics and hand beadwork, We design and create affordable custom wedding dresses you receive a beautifully made wedding dress created especially for you.

The average cost of custom-made wedding dresses – including fabric – varies according to what style and fabric you choose and beadwork involved a guide is from $2300 to $3900 and an opulent heavy beaded OR heavy Lace gown can be up to $4700

Sometimes, a little inspiration and imagination can make dreams come true. If you have an idea of how you want your gown to look, show us a picture and we will re-create it for you. Customizing your dream dress… just show us a picture!

We can make your custom wedding gown from  $2,300 beautifully hand beaded.​ The process is simple, you make a private bridal suite appointment, that’s not rushed, it’s relaxed, and you are the only bride.

We then share pictures and Ideas of your style of gown, to go with the theme of your wedding day, we then understand your body’s shape and silhouette to get the most amazing fit!  Embracing every kind of bride, we will listen to your thoughts and ideas, we take the time to explain the making process, and how we work through each stage of the gown. Lace pin patterns of applique are delectably placed though our creativity, its beauty only highlighted in our hand beadwork.

Custom make your wedding dress with us… I personally promise you will get the wedding dress you want!!

     Gowns In Making

Your Gown will take 16 to 20weeks to be completed each stage of the gown taking time from design, to Patten cut, fabric cut, and then sew work, Below you will see gowns in the workroom, as hand applique up to 10 different laces are hand placed by 100’s of pins, ready to be hand-stitched and finished off with weeks for bead-work. Please note we are only equipped to make size 6 to 16

 

 

  CREATIVE PROCESS – A GUIDE TO HOW WE MAKE YOUR GOWN 

• STAGE 1-   Gown brief to work to our room (takes 1 week) –   6 months before your wedding – This is called your “ORDER AND FIT”  we take your measurements and go through the design of your gown.
• STAGE 2- Fashion Design (takes 1 week) (allow 2 to 3  more weeks if custom design)
• STAGE 3- Patten Cut (takes 1 week)
• STAGE 4 -Fabric Cut (takes 1 week)
• STAGE 5 -Lace embroidery / Stereo vision (takes 2 weeks)
• STAGE 6 –Sewing (takes 2 weeks)
• STAGE 7 -Hand Appliques lace applique pin Patten    (takes 2 to 4 weeks) 
• STAGE 8 – hand Beadwork (takes 3 to 4 weeks)
• STAGE 9 -Links and finals check (takes 1 week)
• STAGE 9 – Gown delivery around 3 to 4 weeks before the wedding date
• STAGE  10 – Alterations if needed –  1 / 2 weeks
• STAGE 11 – Gown hand over  1 to 2 weeks before the wedding 
• Total of 16 to 20 weeks

 The gown making process is very complexed after the bride has paid her second deposit after her “order and Fit” night, we then order the fabrics, this can take up to six weeks!!…. why we are waiting for fabrics to arrive, we are designing the gown, making a pattern for the gown,  then when fabrics arrive we need to cut the pattern to those fabrics, and start some sew work…. The lace (on a roll)  is then laser cut around each individual piece of lace so we can then place it on to a mannequin in a “pin pattern” to your inspirational photos,  we the hand sew-in, then it’s on to beadwork and finally links, We actually don’t start putting all the elements together to towards the final weeks!! 

Hand Bead Work

A custom made gown is an experience that’s  truly magical All our embellishment designs are created exclusively for your gown, inspired by architecture and patterns with the designer’s immense imagination

 

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